Food Price News & Market Intelligence
Real-time food price analysis, agricultural market updates, and inflation tracking across Nigeria and Africa.
Nigeria's Guava Rarely Reaches a Bottle
Guava packs four times the vitamin C of an orange and grows readily across Nigeria, yet almost none of it is processed into the juices, …
Apps Cut the Middleman From Farm to Market
A wave of Nigerian startups is connecting farmers straight to buyers through their phones, showing real-time prices and trimming the layers of middlemen that inflate …
Nigeria Grows Vegetables Without Soil
From insecure northern towns to Lagos rooftops, Nigerians are growing tomatoes, peppers and leafy greens without soil. Hydroponic and vertical farms use up to 90% …
Nigeria's Farms Look Up to Drones
Drones are moving from novelty to necessity on Nigerian farms, spraying crops with pinpoint accuracy, spotting pests before they spread and mapping soil so farmers …
Cassava Peels Could Cut the Feed Bill
Nigeria throws away about 15 million tonnes of cassava peel every year, left to rot or burn. Researchers say processing it into a maize-like animal …
A Price Floor for Two Million Farmers
Nigeria has launched the Renewed Hope Smallholder Support and Value Chain Programme, promising two million farmers structured finance, quality inputs, extension services and a guaranteed …
Nigeria Takes Its Food Trade to Paris
Flour Mills of Nigeria partnered the French government at the 2026 Paris International Agricultural Show, anchoring a Nigerian pavilion backed by Dangote, BUA and two …
A Toxic Shortcut Taints Nigeria's Beans
To keep beans, crayfish and stockfish free of weevils, some traders spray them with dichlorvos, the banned insecticide sold as Sniper. Nigeria's food regulator warns …
ECOWAS Frees Nigeria's Stranded Onions
Five Nigerian trucks loaded with onions were held for days at a market in Ghana before ECOWAS stepped in to secure their release. Traders welcomed …
Nigeria Spreads Free Fertiliser Across 25 States
: The Federal Government has begun distributing 515,720 bags of urea and NPK fertiliser to 128,930 smallholder farmers across 25 states and the FCT under …
Africa's Cocoa Giants Unite in Abuja
Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast and Cameroon, which grow about two-thirds of the world's cocoa, have signed the Abuja Declaration to shift from raw bean exports …
A Data Pact to Sharpen Farm Spending
Nigeria's farm-financing fund and its statistics bureau have signed a deal to pool and harmonise agricultural data, aiming to steer investment and policy with credible …